Product Description: In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments—and its most absurd...read more

Product Description: From the author of Semi-Tough comes a hilarious novel chronicling one year in the life of irreverent sports columnist Jim Tom Pinch. "Bawdy, bitter, very funny...Jenkins's farewell salute to big-time sportswriting is a tell-all novel that deflates the hype around each and every event, from the Olympics to the Kentucky Derby to Wimbledon (Kirkus Reviews)...read more

A smart-ass sportswriter and skirt-chaser experiences a year of romance, pandering, and padded expense accounts as he covers everything from the Olympics to the Indy 500 to a heavyweight championship. Reprint.

The bestselling author of Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Baja Oklahoma provides more than 75 classic stories, profiles, and columns of his career.

From Dan Jenkins—one of America’s most respected and acclaimed sportswriters and author of the bestselling novels Semi-Tough and Dead Solid Perfect—comes a colorful, sentimental, hilarious, and cantankerous memoir about his lifelong journey through the world of sports. “Sometimes, I envy my own childhood,” says Dan Jenkins. Many can say that about Dan’s whole life. In His Ownself, we follow him from his youth in Texas, where being a sports fan meant understanding a lot about religion, heroes, and drinking; to his first job at the Fort Worth Press working alongside all-time journalistic greats like Blackie Sherrod and Bud Shrake; to the glory days of Sports Illustrated. One of a handful of writers to establish SI as the most important sports magazine ever, Dan refocused the magazine’s college football coverage and covered the game’s greatest players and coaches. Beyond football, Dan is in the conversation about the best golf writers of all time. Having covered every Masters, U.S. Open, PGA, and British Open for the past fifty years, he takes us behind the scenes to capture the drama—as well as the humor—of these tournaments as he brings us up close and personal with the likes of Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.      From his friendship and the rounds played with Ben Hogan, to the stories swapped with New York’s elite, to the corporate expense accounts abused, Dan lets loose on his experiences in journalism, sports, and showbiz. An honest, one-of-a-kind look at politics, hypocrites, political correctness, the past, the present, Hollywood, money, and athletes, this is a sports fan’s dream book. It’s a touching, laugh-out-loud tribute to the romanticism of sportswriting and the glory days of sports, told straight from the mouth of the man who saw it all his ownself.

Book by Jenkins, Shrake, Bud, Jenkins, Dan

Product Description: Legendary sports writer Dan Jenkins delivers a golf history lesson that is unrivaled in its scope and style.  In this seminal collection, Dan Jenkins has selected the funniest and most riveting stories from his epic career as a writer for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest, where his wry reportage of golf’s most thrilling finishes, historic moments, and heartbreaking collapses brought legions of fans intimately close to the action...read more

Product Description: As the University of Texas Longhorns begin their 117th football season, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED pays tribute to this Lone Star treasure with a book that draws on 55 years of award-winning magazine coverage. SI tells the Longhorns' story with excerpts from classic articles and with vintage photographs, as well as rare images from the team's earliest years...read more

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Product Description: The legendary Dan Jenkins returns with another bawdy, over-the-top novel of hijinks on the links – this time, the LPGA gets the treatmentJack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for the big-time magazine SM...read more

A republication of a classic football novel that inspired a film starring Burt Reynolds follows the adventures of New York Giants star halfback Billy Clyde Puckett, who with his teammates participates in an epic Super Bowl championship against the Jets while trying to keep a ledger of the game for a book publisher. Reprint.

Now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship, Bobby Joe Grooves continues his quest for success, confronting both familiar competitors and all-new rivals, including teenage phenomenon Scott Benson, an arrogant young man with a gorgeous mother who soon captures Bobby Joe's attention. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship, Bobby Joe Grooves continues his quest for success, confronting both familiar competitors and all-new rivals, including teenage phenomenon Scott Benson, an arrogant young man with a gorgeous mother who soon captures Bobby Joe's attention. 35,000 first printing.

The sequel to Dead Solid Perfect returns to the world of big-money golf as hellraiser Bobby Joe Grooves tries everything to turn his single annual tournament win to a coveted place on the Ryder Cup team, but he has two ex-wives, a girlfriend, a host of PGA officials, and a lackluster golfing career standing in his way. Reprint.

The sequel to Dead Solid Perfect returns to the world of big-money golf as hellraiser Bobby Joe Grooves tries everything to turn his single annual tournament win to a coveted place on the Ryder Cup team, but he has two ex-wives, a girlfriend, a host of PGA officials, and a lackluster golfing career standing in his way. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton’s father lures her from a New York job with Time magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that she can be the editor of his Claybelle Standard-Times. Betsy brings along her husband, Ted Winton, an easterner and Yale graduate to whom she is constantly explaining Texas...read more

Product Description: This Texas Traditions Series reprint takes us back to the Lone Star State during the Cold War at the beginning of the 1960s. The postwar generation is in a frenzy of high living and profligate spending. Big Texas oil is still subsidized by a federal depletion allowance and cattle still account for much of the state’s wealth...read more

A moderately successful professional golfer attempts to handle the pressures of being a front-runner in a championship tournament, in a new edition of the classic golf novel by the author of Semi-Tough. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The sportswriter and humorist reviews the best college football teams in Texas' history, focusing on his alma mater, Texas Christian University. (view table of contents)

In a bawdy, football-filled sequel to his best-sellers, Semi-Tough and Life Its Ownself, Billy Clyde Puckett--'good ol' boy,' former star halfback, and broadcaster--hits on a scheme to secure a new NFL franchise team. Reprint.

Product Description: 156pp, photos. Edited by Dan Jenkins. Royal was a legendary football coach at the University of Texas.